InfoWorld's Doug Dineley and Brian Chee round up the best new features of Windows Server 8. 'If you're a large shop struggling to manage hundreds of Windows servers, Windows Server 8 should ease the job. If you're a small shop trying to squeeze high-end capability from a low-end budget, Windows Server 8 has plenty for you, too. With Windows Server 8, everything from server deployment to high availability becomes smoother and more automated.' From multiserver management, to friction-free server deployment, to flexible live migration, 'whatever grudge you may hold against Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 8 will almost certainly make amends.'

I don't think "dumbing down" is entirely fair. You would be probably relatively lost, too, when confronted with many tools, habits, necessities, requirements, and skills of some bygone eras ...or even present fields outside of your own (possibly even within it, but "alien" one way or another; there are many more operating systems than daily OSnews would suggest)

That's just what our minds are, limited capabilities and all; our civilisation is built on specialisation. Many past skills and activities, become either obsolete or "hidden" from us, leaving us free to focus on other pursuits. There's no particular reason why computing science and technology should be much different (especially if we are to believe that "its era" is in the twilight; XXI century supposedly being an era of biology & biochemistry)

The point of computers is to act as prostheses of our minds; you don't really want to bother with the prosthesis when focusing on the pursuits in which it is supposed to assist.